R Kelly decided to give a long interview with GQ magazine. It went better than his interview with Huffington Post.
Here are some of the highlights.
Given that a lot of people believe that the video shows you, some of the behaviors on the video have become associated with you, particularly urination as part of sex. Pissing on people. You must have seen that Dave Chappelle skit.
“No, I haven’t.”
Well, to ask the embarrassing question—to give you a chance to clarify something—and this wouldn’t be illegal, but is that something you like as part of sex?
“Absolutely not.”
In no circumstances?
“No.”
How would you describe your relationship with Aaliyah?
“Uh, I would describe it as best friends. Deep friends. As far as we both loved music and wanted to be successful. She’s a Capricorn, I’m a Capricorn, my momma a Capricorn, her daddy’s a Capricorn, you know. It was just so much in common with each other.”
And these are difficult questions but would you say you were in love with her?
“Yes. I would say I loved ‘liyah.”
But “in love”?
“Well, there’s a lot of ways to be in love with a person. I was in love with my grandfather, you know. But yeah, I would say I was in love with Aaliyah just like I was in love with anybody else. But in a different, friend type of way.”
And she was in love with you?
“I would think so. Absolutely. I would say that.”
As you know, people know that there was a wedding ceremony and you got married.
“Well, because of Aaliyah’s passing, as I’ve always said, out of respect for her mother who’s sick and her father who’s passed, I will never have that conversation with anyone. Out of respect for Aaliyah, and her mother and father who has asked me not to personally. But I can tell you I loved her, I can tell you she loved me, we was very close. We were, you know, best best best best friends.”
Did you do anything in that situation that you feel bad about or you feel was wrong?
“Absolutely not. Absolutely not. That’s my answer forever: Absolutely not.”
Kells also talks about a lot of other weird things like actually sleeping in the closet, why he settled all his alleged underage rape cases, not being able to read, being sexually abused as a child and much more.
It is a good read, you should check it out.
